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Dominick Auciello, PsyD, neuropsychologist with the Learning and Development Center at the Child Mind Institute shared the different therapy options for children with learning disabilities. He said that one of the most important aspects is a supportive place to go where children can talk and feel understood or validated.

Dr. Harold Koplewicz was the guest of honor at the annual Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Dinner Dance in Florida, which benefits mental health research. The foundation honored Dr. Koplewicz's Healthy Brain Network that continues to research and develop new effective tools to examine brain development and diagnose mental illness.

PsychCentral's Editor-in-Chief, John M. Grohol writes about the New York Times op ed by Alan Sroufe, who believes that ADHD medication is being over used. Dr. Grohol cites Dr. Harold Koplewicz's rebuttal to the op ed to demonstrate why the slam on ADHD medications is misleading.

Dr. Harold Koplewicz shares his views on the Today show on the use of ADHD medication. He addresses points from Dr. Alan Sroufe's op ed in the New York Times that claimed ADHD causes are environmental and that stimulant medication is ineffective. Dr. Koplewicz makes the point that psychiatric illness is different than environmental causes and that Dr. Sroufe's op-ed is representative of a history of blame and shame tactics on parents.

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Dr. Harold Koplewicz rights the record on ADHD stimulant medication after a New York Times op ed made claims that medication is not affective and that environmental causes including parenting may be at the root of the disorder.

The head of the Windward School, John J. Russell writes in The Journal News about his community seeking to heal after the tragedy on Christmas that took the lives of the three of the school's students. The school turned to Dr. Harold Koplewicz at the Child Mind Institute for guidance on how parents and teachers can talk to children about the loss of a friend.

The Child Mind Institute's Director of the Center for the Developing Brain, Dr. Michael Milham wrote about the point of crossroads in the neuroimaging community in Neuron Magazine. The connectome-wide association has long been characterized by individualism and now the data, computational and analytic needs are on the brink of cultural reform. Dr. Milham writes that emerging initatives to develop an open neuroscience model will accelerate the pace and success of scientific discovery.

The Wall Street Journal published a story in the January 24, 2012 edition on emerging research on the billions of neural links that make the mind work. Findings on the first signs of a universal architecture of brain connections is in part due to the encouragement of researchers to make their research public by Dr. Michael Milham of the Child Mind Institute. Dr. Milham, along with his colleagues recently persuaded researchers at 33 centers around the world to pool 1,300 data sets on brain connections into one public collection.

With the emergence of several cases of parents raising their children as gender neutral, Dr. Harold Koplewicz discusses the dangers of keeping gender a secret. He points out that the male and the female brain are inherently different and development will differ. 

Dr. Harold Koplewicz discusses the recent news of proposed changes in the upcoming DSM-V's definition of autism. He explains the implications of the changes and his perspective on the DSM task force's mission.